You are correct, not only doesn't display localized, it doesn't update itself to current settings.
Join the locales discussion group on yahoo, tz is a big issue there.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/locales
Dave
Eric Kreiser <ekreiser@knowledgeplanet.com> wrote: What's up with time zones in JAVA. It seems that JAVA did NOT do localization of the time zone descriptors. What good is it to display the English text for a time zone to a Japanese user?
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